| Posted on: | 01/05/25 22:07:27 |
| Last edited: | 01/05/25 22:07:27 |
I watched Stalker(1979), a Russian film recommended to me by Miranda. It was hard to watch at first, I constantly looking for consistent meaning and then I started contemplating it. That is when I started to appreciate the film.
I watched it in two sittings. In the first sitting my Father was with me, we watched about 30% of the film. Then I watched it the next night and I am writing my review of it just after I’ve watched the film so I don’t forget most of my thoughts.
Spoilers ahead.
I wrote some things in my notebook:
It’s hard to write about this film. I haven’t written an intricate things as this in more than three months I’d say. There’s plenty to say.
The film starts off with a kinda bald guy in his room with his wife and daughter. They are all sleeping on the same bed with the daughter between them. They live in quite poor conditions, their house is extremely near, if not below the traintracks. The sound is loud, clearly loud and the vibrations are not behind. Things will start to move when the train comes and it won’t go away for at least a minute, more like a couple. Then the bald guy starts putting some clothes on, the wife complains about his job, explaining that he should not be doing that. The guy says he has to and leaves. He meets some people, then they plan an escape. An escape to go away from their town to the ZONE. Well, before that they meet at a bar to talk about who they are and they talk a little in the ZONE. I don’t know if it was just me but sometimes it was very complicated to know who was talking, like their mouths didn’t move that much and they did not do any gestures whatsoever and sometimes the shots were too far away for the movements of the mouth to be perceived. Maybe that’s just the doing of Tarkovsky (Andrei Tarkovsky, the director of the film).
Then they escape after using a vehicle with the top off and then they use one of those locomotives that is on the train tracks and choo choo bitch offf they go. There’s a few bullets here and there. No one get’s injured I think. Then they get somewhere. They gotta lose the lil' choo choo thing because that is the way.
The bald guy is the leader. The other’s are there to go to the Room in the Zone. The bald guy has been hired as their guide. He explains to them that they are in the Zone and in the Zone lives no one and the ZONEEEEeee is very special so they gotta be careful about everything they do. Whatever they think is the right way to do things or the right way to go is probably never the first answer, he says. They gotta go the long way if they want to survive. So they take longer than usual. Then one of the guys forgets something, goes for it then is waiting for them with a fucking fogata (fire) with the stuff he had forgotten and then they go and the Writer guy keeps complaining why he always has to go first and then they go into some kind of giant shit hole with water, looks nasty but they do it anyways. They get scared sometimes because of the sounds, then they almost get to the room when the Professor pulls out a fucking bomb and says this Zone, this room has no meaning that no one could ever grant him the inner-most wish he’d want. Ah well I forgot to say the bald guy, the guide tells them that they’ll go in the room and think of their inner-most wish the one that’s really inside of their gut and also to think of their whole lives leading to this point and so they kinda refuse and they go on to rant that this is just some bullshit thing that it has no meaning and they want to bomb the fucking place down because if they don’t like it no one can like and it’s good that they are destroying this guy’s business cause why not. Then they cancel the bomb thing, don’t bomb anything, none of them go into the room for their wish to be granted they return as normal. They see that the bald guy’s daughter can’t walk. The wife says that he married the right guy and some shit that this is destiny and they’re happy. the daughter has some mighty magic and can move stuff like glasses of water n' shit.
*end of movie*
At this point I don’t really know what to say. I enjoyed about 70% of the film it has some really good phrases. I watched it in Russian with English subtitles from opensubtitles, maybe there’s a better translation somewhere. I need to watch it again when I’m not depressed of life. I don’t think I felt as if this movie changed my life forever but it did remind me that I have to believe in something, in myself, in someone, in a dream, in ANYTHING! Maybe I’ll update the review
I liked it. Thanks for the recommendation, Miranda.
The end.
Tags: en write movies whynot